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GUINEVERE :
Why
are you still lying to me?
ARTHUR :
…
Still… ?
I don’t…
I don’t understand…
GUINEVERE :
This isn’t all of it, is it ?
This letter makes another claim.
You attempted to kill Mordred when he was born.
ARTHUR :
…
GUINEVERE :
What's more, you tasked Pellinore with the deed.
And after all this time, you keep smothering the truth whenever it threatens to be revealed, again and again,
with Gawain as your sword hand.
ARTHUR :
…
GUINEVERE :
This posthumous letter is not to be taken lightly.
Aglovale sent it to me, because he knew, as a friend,
that I would understand the situation as a whole and act accordingly.
So I beg of you, Arthur…
Tell me Aglovale and Lamorak did not die to preserve this secret,
and what remains of your honor.
ARTHUR :
It’s not⎯
GUINEVERE :
Or are you trying to convince yourself what Gawain did was right, in your name no less?
Does Merlin’s prophecy about Mordred haunt you so, that it would make you lose your mind?
ARTHUR :
How did you⎯?
GUINEVERE :
For goodness’ sake, Arthur!
You keep on following Merlin’s prophecies blindly, no matter how vague!
After all this time!
ARTHUR :
…
GUINEVERE :
Sixteen years, Arthur!
Sixteen years you’ve left me to live under the shadow of your greatest secret!
Sixteen years you’ve kept the truth hidden, honor be damned…
… not giving so much as a thought to what I could do to help!
And at what cost?!
How many sacrifices were made, how many of our knights died for it?
Are you going to let Gawain be dragged through the mud to save yourself,
until she too dies in your name?
[ arthur puts his hand through a mirror. yikes. ]
ARTHUR :
… Mordred’s coming heralds the end of the Round Table, and my death.
The end of everything we’ve built.
Our cause.
It’s all so fragile, and now it’s being threatened by the only heir to the throne, a bastard born of incest.
The best thing you could’ve done to help me
would’ve been to give me an heir.
…
… No, Guinevere, I…
… I lost my temper, I⎯
GUINEVERE :
Get out!
Get out of here!
ARTHUR :
…
Don’t forget
the eulogies.
LANCELOT :
Bors.
We’re going to the tumulus* by horse, aren’t we?
*artificial hill covering a grave
BORS :
Uh, yes?
We could tie them to the great oak, even. Why?
LANCELOT :
…
…I’ve got a bad feeling about this.
MORDRED :
( I feel nauseous.
This vise-like feeling around my heart…
Is that what the Grail’s influence feels like?
That’s so macabre… )
PERCIVAL :
Mordred?
Is everything alright?
MORDRED :
…
… Yes.
Are you? Were there too many people around?
PERCIVAL :
I have a hard time dealing with all these people offering their condolences.
MORDRED :
…
PERCIVAL :
…
Looks like you’re avoiding me.
Can we talk?
MORDRED :
I don’t want to think about that day.
I have nothing to say about it.
PERCIVAL :
It’s not what I want to talk about, Mordred…
I wanted to talk about us, we could⎯
[ percival’s fingers graze mordred’s. the grail pulses, and he snatches his hand away. ]
PERCIVAL :
…
… Oh.
They just lit the bonfires.
We should go.
MORDRED :
…
HERALD :
Her Majesty the queen!
The queen shall speak!
GUINEVERE :
Today, we mourn the death of knights
lost too soon to legend.
However, the pain we feel today should not hold them back.
Let us turn to the bonfires’ lights, to guide them to the Otherworld.
May they find their way to the home of the Dark One, who shall welcome them into his hall.
Let us remember them as comrades-in-arms,
friends,
and…
…
… No.
I cannot…
I cannot go on like this.
Not as long as the truth
has not been revealed.
ROUND TABLE TRIVIA
Bloodline is important, as it represents one’s bond to their social status and their family line.
[ When two families are joined in marriage, the heir is tied to both. ]
When it comes to royalty, the goal behind a political marriage is to provide an heir to the crown in order to reinforce the alliance between the two kingdoms.
GAWAIN (Arthur’s heir) :
As long as Mordred doesn’t know…
TRISTAN (Mark’s heir) :
Things are… complicated with my uncle at the moment.
In the absence of a legitimate heir, such an alliance is weakened, as the succession would benefit an heir who belongs to only one half of the family.
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